{"id":8853,"date":"2020-06-03T10:41:46","date_gmt":"2020-06-03T10:41:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/?p=8853"},"modified":"2020-06-03T10:41:46","modified_gmt":"2020-06-03T10:41:46","slug":"election-commission-to-meet-today-to-discuss-preparations-for-general-election","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/election-commission-to-meet-today-to-discuss-preparations-for-general-election\/","title":{"rendered":"Election Commission to meet today to discuss preparations for general election"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify\">The National Election Commission will meet on Wednesday at the its office in Rajagiriya to discuss preparations for the General Election, the Chairman of the Commission Mahinda Deshapriya said.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">The Elections Commission Chairman said yesterday that they will discuss the preliminary matters related to the general election but a decision on the date of the election cannot be taken today.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">However, Mr. Deshapriya said steps will be taken to hold the general election soon.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">The decision to expedite the general election comes after the Supreme Court dismissed all Fundamental Rights petitions challenging the election which was to be held on the 20th of June.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">Courtesy: Colombo Page<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The National Election Commission will meet on Wednesday at the its office in Rajagiriya&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":8854,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"content-type":"","_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8853","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-srilankan-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8853","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8853"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8853\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8854"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8853"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8853"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8853"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}